Hello Perl Authors,
Does anyone have a book ("literary") agent to recommend?
I'm shopping for one, and would appreciate benefiting from your
experience.
Preferably someone you're sure helped you get more favorable
contractual terms, get along better with your publisher, and maybe
even find new writing opportunities.
Incidentally, in case the results of my "Best Perl Publishers"
(from author's POV) thread weren't obvious to everybody, O'Reilly
came in as a clear first choice, Manning as second, and everybody
else as a distant third. (Although just about every publisher who's
tried has fielded at least one half-decent Perl title, many have
very spotty track records).
The biggest factors affecting judgments of publishers by authors
were: professional skills and personal characteristics of Editors,
acceptability of publisher-dictated macros for doing markup, quality
of support staff (for illustrations, etc.), and marketing prowess.
-Tim
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